File:Early Roman, Complete double ended button and loop fastener (FindID 578485).jpg

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Early Roman: Complete double ended button and loop fastener
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Teresa Gilmore, 2013-09-30 16:29:00
Title
Early Roman: Complete double ended button and loop fastener
Description
English: A complete enamelled copper alloy button and loop fastener, of Early Roman dating (AD 50 to AD 150).

The button and loop fastener has a tear drop shaped head, with a raised circular boss in the widest section. This appears to have enamel on originally and some traces of white (?) remain but the pattern is unclear.

The foot projects from the base of the head, gradually widening to a rectangular shaped terminal. There is linear hollow running from half way along the foot up to the widened terminal of the foot. either side of the groove, on the terminal of the foot is a raised oval, which meet where the line ends. On the reverse are hollows, two small ones behind these raised ovals, and a larger one almost tear-drop in shape, below the grooved section.

The end of the foot is flat, with a rectangular panel of enamel decoration, consisting of three circular recesses.

The reverse of the fastener has two semi circular attachment loops, positioned at either end.

It measures 60.19 mm in length, 20.15 mm wide and 17.42 mm thick. It weighs 27.9 g.

The fastener is a mid to dark green colour, with an even surface patina. Abrasion, caused by movement whilst within the plough soil, has resulted in a loss of some of the original surface detail and enamel.

This fastener is of the double ended type. The published corpus of double-headed fasteners is small, with examples from Lowbury Hill, Berks., Traprain Law, East Lothian, Stanwick and Reighton, N Yorks., Abergavenny, Monmouths., and Richborough, Kent. The five fasteners of this often elaborate type recorded by the PAS are all from northern counties, with examples from North Yorkshire at Dunnington (YORYM-024128) and Ravensworth (NCL-70FEC6), South Cave, E Yorks. (YORYM-AC7061; Piercebridge, Durham (NCL-625592), and Waitby, Cumbria (NCL-DFC861). Whilst no two examples within the combined datasets are identical, their individual features can be paralleled. For example, the fastener from Dunnington, N Yorks., which has a petal-shaped head and a rectangular head, shows affinities with that from Reighton, N Yorks. While those from Waitby, Cumbria (NCL-625592), and Traprain Law have similar moulded decoration on the shank and rectangular head but differ in the petal-shaped head on the Traprain example compared with the boss head on the Waitby fastener (Worrell, 2008).

Reference:
Worrell, S. 2008. Finds Reported under the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Britannia. XXXIX
Depicted place (County of findspot) North Yorkshire
Date between 50 and 200
Accession number
FindID: 578485
Old ref: WMID-998297
Filename: WMID-998297.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/440907
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/440907/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/578485
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Object location54° 10′ 15.24″ N, 0° 32′ 05.88″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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